Holy Scripture
Deuteronomy 1:31
A church father on this verse
“See what we are generally taught about God: "God is not as a man to be deceived nor as the son of man to be threatened," and we learn that God is not as man. But other texts say that God is as a man: "For the Lord your God has taught you as a man teaches his son," and again, "As a man he takes on the manners of his so…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
31and in this wilderness which ye saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite; how the Lord thy God will bear thee as a nursling, as if any man should nurse his child, through all the way which ye have gone until ye came to this place.
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In context
29And I said to you, Fear not, neither be ye afraid of them;
30the Lord your God who goes before your face, he shall fight against them together with you effectually, according to all that he wrought for you in the land of Egypt;
— Deuteronomy 1:31 —
32And in this matter ye believed not the Lord our God,
33who goes before you in the way to choose you a place, guiding you in fire by night, showing you the way by which ye go, and a cloud by day.